This watchdog blog, by journalist Norman Oder, offers analysis, commentary, and reportage about the $4.9 billion project to build the Barclays Center arena and 16 high-rise buildings at a crucial site in Brooklyn. Dubbed Atlantic Yards by developer Forest City Ratner in 2003, it was rebranded Pacific Park in 2014 after the Chinese government-owned Greenland Group bought a 70% stake in 15 towers. New York State still calls it Atlantic Yards. Contact: AtlanticYardsReport[at]hotmail.com

Friday, September 09, 2016

Well, on Aug. 15, we got a reminder that that the seemingly bi-monthly Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park "Quality of Life Community Update Meeting" had been rescheduled from Aug. 24 to Sept. 13, which is next Tuesday.

The meeting will be from 6-8 pm and the location, as per usual, is the:

Surely the state and developer Greenland Forest City Partners have information they wish to share.

But if they need a record of construction and operations incidents affecting the community around the project site--cars on the sidewalk, illegal truck parking, traffic jams, etc.--they should go to the #BCIZA hashtag (Barclays Center Impact Zone Alliance) on Instagram. Below are some examples.

By the way, the meeting was originally called the Quality of Life Committee, with expected citizen participation; it then became a Community Update Meeting, a "developer meeting," according to a state official. Now it's supposed to be called Quality of Life Committee again.

The subsequent Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation meeting was also shifted, from August 16 to Sept. 20. That's usually 3-5:30 pm; no location has been set, but it's often at Long Island University.
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